Thread: [Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-users] Award rom lister
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From: Ken Y. <ke...@nl...> - 2001-04-12 01:06:00
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|Here is a cleaned up version of my award rom decoder, now that I have |used this reverse engineering to get etherboot into the curdls |motherboard. | |If someone wants they can build now take lharc and my program |and build an opensource version of cbrom... Thanks, I'll put that in contrib/. Any preferred name for it? |
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From: Marty C. <md...@th...> - 2001-04-12 17:34:50
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On 4/11/01 8:00 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote:
>Here is a cleaned up version of my award rom decoder, now that I have
>used this reverse engineering to get etherboot into the curdls
>motherboard.
>If someone wants they can build now take lharc and my program
>and build an opensource version of cbrom...
Eric, this is excellent! We get a lot of requests from people about how
to flash a motherboard BIOS. This is a great tool!
I would very much like to document BIOS flashing procedures for the
Etherboot documentation. Would anyone who knows how to do this please
send me mail? We are working on getting the Etherboot documentation into
Docbook XML, and this would be a really nice section.
Best Regards,
Marty
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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2001-04-12 17:45:09
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Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes: > On 4/11/01 8:00 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote: > >Here is a cleaned up version of my award rom decoder, now that I have > >used this reverse engineering to get etherboot into the curdls > >motherboard. > >If someone wants they can build now take lharc and my program > >and build an opensource version of cbrom... > > Eric, this is excellent! We get a lot of requests from people about how > to flash a motherboard BIOS. This is a great tool! Says Marty without running it... > I would very much like to document BIOS flashing procedures for the > Etherboot documentation. Would anyone who knows how to do this please > send me mail? We are working on getting the Etherboot documentation into > Docbook XML, and this would be a really nice section. Basically what I do is I get the bios flash utility and a bios update from the motherboard vendor. At least on some versions of the award bios they store their drivers to flash the rom in the new romimage itself. Then once I have an image I know I can flash you can take my tool and see with an award bios how all of the plugin roms are laid out. Going further is an art. It is not longer a black art, but it is still an art. Bioses are choosy about which plugin roms they run. If the bios already has a PXE rom, replace it and imitate it as closely as possible with etherboot. Eric |
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From: Marty C. <md...@th...> - 2001-04-13 20:19:10
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On 4/12/01 1:44 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote: >Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes: >> Eric, this is excellent! We get a lot of requests from people about how >> to flash a motherboard BIOS. This is a great tool! >Says Marty without running it... I should have been a little more precise. Your tool is an excellent idea. You are correct that I have not run it yet. Of course I haven't driven a BMW, but I hear they are excellent cars and the company that makes them has a good reputation... >Basically what I do is I get the bios flash utility and a bios update >from the motherboard vendor. At least on some versions of the award >bios they store their drivers to flash the rom in the new romimage itself. >Then once I have an image I know I can flash you can take my tool and >see with an award bios how all of the plugin roms are laid out. >Going further is an art. It is not longer a black art, but it is >still an art. Bioses are choosy about which plugin roms they run. If >the bios already has a PXE rom, replace it and imitate it as closely >as possible with etherboot. I appreciate and respect the art and science of BIOS flashing, and want to help make it easier for people who are less skilled in the art, just as rom-o-matic.net makes it easier to make Etherboot ROMS. I have found these two web pages which describe how to insert Etherboot code into an Award BIOS and flash it: http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ltsp_bookpc_howto.html http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ltsp_bookpc2_howto.html Hopefully these articles will help those who have asked about how to do this. --- Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly. Name: Marty Connor US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA Voice: (617) 491-6935, Fax: (617) 491-7046 Email: md...@th... Web: http://www.thinguin.org/ |
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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2001-04-13 21:57:53
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Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes: > On 4/12/01 1:44 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote: > >Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes: > >> Eric, this is excellent! We get a lot of requests from people about how > >> to flash a motherboard BIOS. This is a great tool! > > >Says Marty without running it... > > I should have been a little more precise. Your tool is an excellent > idea. You are correct that I have not run it yet. Of course I haven't > driven a BMW, but I hear they are excellent cars and the company that > makes them has a good reputation... Just giving you a hard time... :) > I appreciate and respect the art and science of BIOS flashing, and want > to help make it easier for people who are less skilled in the art, just > as > rom-o-matic.net makes it easier to make Etherboot ROMS. I want to help as well. But also to emphasize that because you can't count on the vendors to support the plugin roms in any particular fashion. And that cbrom make it look really easy. And it isn't always. So as well as how to do it for some specific motherboard boards a presentation of tricks you can try when the the rom doesn't want to work on your motherboard, should be useful. Simply knowing how to run cbrom isn't enough... > Hopefully these articles will help those who have asked about how to do > this. It is certainly a starting point. Eric |
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From: <ebi...@ln...> - 2001-04-12 16:48:14
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Ken Yap <ke...@nl...> writes: > |Here is a cleaned up version of my award rom decoder, now that I have > |used this reverse engineering to get etherboot into the curdls > |motherboard. > | > |If someone wants they can build now take lharc and my program > |and build an opensource version of cbrom... > > Thanks, I'll put that in contrib/. Any preferred name for it? Something like award_plugin_roms. My original working name of rom_strings isn't very accurate any more. It's a perl script that should do a pretty good job of listing roms. Eric |
